2021

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Pleasure as the Baseline

Interview with Dawn Serra

From: The Care We Dream Of

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The interviewee discusses pleasure as a right that extends to the provision of health care, asking what would health care be like if providers asked "What is a win for you, to help you feel … 11 $1.10 Add
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Portapique

From: Insurgent Love

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This chapter explores the mass murders in Portapique, Nova Scotia, in 2020. 10 $1.00 Add
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Power in the Holocene

The Rise of Social Inequality

From: Power

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In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … 67 $6.70 Add
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Professors in Place

From: The Elective Mind

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The third section considers the role of professors in bringing an elective course and the curiosity, enthusiasm and desire for learning to life. 38 $3.80 Add
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Raising the Volume on the Social Determinants of Health in Canada and Elsewhere

From: Oppression

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This chapter explores the importance of social determinants of health (sdh) and their quality and distribution, which can lead to adverse health outcomes. The author looks at the SDH in Canada … 20 $2.00 Add
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Running From Hounds

From: Alexa!

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The budding of Alexa’s political career, the chapter explores her flirtation with the Liberal Party and her commitment to civic service and progress in Halifax, all while dancing ever … 38 $3.80 Add
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Samantha Power in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

April 30, 2020

From: The World After Covid

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Samantha Power and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and international affairs and global politics. Topics include global social and economics inequalities, different countries’ responses … 11 $1.10 Add
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Signing up to Serve

From: Asleep in the Deep

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This chapter describes the distinctive Canadian Nursing Sister uniform and the procedures undergone to recruit and select nurses for the Canadian Army Medical Corp once war was declared. … 18 $1.80 Add
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Systemic Discrimination

Police and Race

From: Crisis in Canada's Policing

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In this chapter, the author outline the "broken windows" theory of policing, and how this has had disproportionate impacts on racialized people. ; 45 $4.50 Add
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The Allende of the North

From: The Fire and the Ashes

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This chapter examines the Dave Barrett NDP government of British Columbia, which was in power from 1972-1975. Jackson later worked with the BC NDP caucus as they tried to resist the resurgent … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Battle Between Data and Intuition

From: Shifting the Balance

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Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. This chapter discusses the two conflicting approaches … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Choices that Created Economic Inequality

From: Share the Wealth!

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Readings in part 1 of this title explore the political and economic decisions and trends that have led to economic inequality in Canada. This chapter explores the conscious decisions made by the … ; 15 $1.50 Add
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The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation

From: Civilizing the State

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The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation begins with an examination of the loss of groundwater in Chennai, India, looking at the political, economic and land-use histories leading to it. The … 17 $1.70 Add
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The education of a female leader

PART 1: DEVELOPING THE NERVE TO LEAD

From: Nerve

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The authors discuss educational opportunities for women and their own early memories of learning and education. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Federal Court of Appeal in the Judicial System

Appeals to the Supreme Court

From: The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court

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This chapter examines the “in between” of the Appeals to the Supreme Court, of which only a modest (and shrinking) proportion of which is accepted for full review. 22 $2.20 Add